Hi, the GCC package itself isn't to useful. I think you are looking for the gcc-toolchain package which installs GCC, binutils and libc.
Malte On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 07:22 Jeffrey Walton, <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > It took me about 15 minutes to install GCC on Guix because Guix named > the GCC package libgccjit. > > I understand Guix package manager is powerful. I think you should use > an alias feature (or whatever it is called under Guix), and create and > few aliases to help with administration: > > gcc -> libgccjit > g++ -> libgccjit > gcc-c++ -> libgccjit > > These are the names developers expect for the compiler. They don't > expect a name like libgccjit. > > With the aliases in place, a command like 'guix install gcc' works as > expected. > > Without the aliases (and absent a sane package name), people have to > lookup the documentation and read how to use the package manager for a > simple task like installing the compiler. When 50 or 100 developers > waste 15 minutes of their time, that's about 1 man-week wasted. > There's no reason to waste man-weeks on simple tasks. > > Thanks in advance. > > > >
